Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly listed prices for the concert.The Temecula Valley Symphony will celebrate California virtuosos in its season-opening concert, including Southern California-based composer Peter Boyer will be featured and Hollywood movie music by Erich Korngold.

And Temecula’s own piano virtuoso, 14-year-old Tyler Kim, the first-place winner of the symphony’s annual Young Artist Competition in 2015, will also be featured at the concert on the Temecula Valley High School campus on Saturday, Oct. 1.

“I have never really had to push Tyler to practice,” said Dr. Dennis Kim, Tyler’s father. “He didn’t start playing until he was 6 years old, which is a little late for potential piano performers. We asked him if he was interested in learning an instrument and he chose piano. Since then, he has been very self-driven. When he was home-schooled, he would practice five hours a day.”

Kim started taking lessons with a local piano teacher, then studied with a teacher in San Diego before being recruited by the Colburn Music Academy in Los Angeles, according to Dr. Kim.

“The Colburn program is very intense,” Dr. Kim said. “He goes for whole days on Tuesday and Saturday and takes lessons in technique, musicality, music theory, chamber music, acting. It’s a college-prep program for music performance.”

During the summer of 2016, Kim traveled to Music Fest in Perugia, Italy, where he performed one movement of the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 as well as several solo performances. He already has appeared in recitals at Carnegie Hall and Poway Performing Arts Center. According to Dr. Kim, the young pianist will be giving several piano performances over the next few months, and is preparing for several national and international competitions.

“He is currently practicing five or six pieces to put into his repertoire,” Dr. Kim said.

Boyer, a resident California composer, composed his Symphony No. 1 in honor of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. According to Alana Joos, artistic director and president of the Temecula Valley Symphony, the piece is a lyrical and rhythmically charged work that will be a highlight of the concert.

“We always program a variety of music,” Joos said in a recent interview. “The material we select is very eclectic. We usually have some traditional works – like the Chopin Piano Concerto – some symphonic pops piece, and something new, like the Boyer piece. Our audiences are telling us they love the variety.”

For the symphonic pops work of this concert, the symphony will perform a 1940s film score by Korngold to the movie “The Sea Hawk.”

The program includes Verdi’s Overture to “I vespri Siciliani,” an Italian opera about the 1292 Sicilian rebellion against the French.

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